EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 29 
greater or less proficiency in any of the subjects covered by competitive 
examinations, as well as to the other qualifications of candidates ad- 
mitted to such examinations. 
Scholarship pupils are lodged free of cost in furnished rooms in a 
spacious dwelling adjoining the Garden, under the charge of an employee 
of the Garden. Table board is not supplied, but wholesome food can be 
obtained in the lodge at reasonable cost (at present, $13.00 per month). 
The lodge contains a reading-room supplied with the more valuable hor- 
ticultural and agricultural papers, and also with a small but standard 
collection of books on the same subjects, which the pupils have free use 
of, and under needful restrictions they are permitted to make reference 
use of the general library of the Garden, which already comprises some 
10,000 volumes and 10,000 pamphlets relating to all branches of pure and 
applied botany. So far as possible, the surroundings of pupils are made 
home-like, and, without assuming any responsibility for their behavior, 
an effort is made to subject them to influences calculated to insure for 
them gentlemanly manners and habits of industry and investigation. 
During the first year of their scholarship, garden pupils work at the 
practical duties of the Garden nine or ten hours daily, according to the 
season, the same as regular employees of the Garden, and are also ex- 
pected to read the notes and articles referring to the subject of their 
work, in one or more good journals. After the first year one-half of each 
day is given to manual work, the remainder being devoted to class work 
as outlined in the appended table. 
The 76 class exercises per week here‘tabulated (each extending over 
three months), may be grouped under subjects as follows :— 
Gardening: 
Floriculture....-cscce sees soe occ neu ith 5h nner 8 
Vegetable gardening.... .... ..0e.s0,.ee0 stu 4 
Fruit culture. ...ccccccecccccccvcnasii tapene inane 
FOVaRT ic see eR AUC UN SETS Soa c cn coe Seek ess vea'ae 3 
Landscape gardening ........ i apate ida Naral mensch dhdiee wins 3 
Belected thesis WO, ease arc 54.6.0. 4050 0inaiese ade ee cee 4 30 
Surveying and drainage ...........cccccscccee cosecves 6 
Rookkeeping and accounts... ..-- ose cceseccss enikiareineion 4 
BGOMOTNG GHLOMOlOZY. .. 200002 es ecct oocccceees ceenene 5 
Botany in its relation to gardening: 
General botany..... Bsc geibc eee oss coca k suena 8 
Botany of decorative plants........... cece recess 5 
Botany of hardy woody plants......... o caceuuecarnet 38 
Botan ¥:Ol TUS + c.ce:n00o00.00. cece cace sce ppetaierranen r= 2 
Botany of vegetables........-...+... enideeeh these 1 
Botany OF WOO soon coesccccee voce sssccccccccs sane 1 
HCOMOMUIG FIMCOG OT ace eet ccc cece cs esec csectececs 7 
Vegetable physiology.........ecesececces sece veces 4 31 76 
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